But for the mechanized bed, the series of beeps and clicks, and the whoosh of the HEPA-filtered air, they could be in an expensive hotel room. A view of a vast blue lake below them, the wood-paneled window seat, the aggressively boring landscape painting. The unit is a ‘scent-free’ zone, since perfumes and cologne add to the nausea, but she always snacks on Clementine oranges, if only to puncture the room’s sterility with the sweet smell of sunlight and sugar. He pulls his paper mask down a bit, and breathes deeply, nostrils flared wide; it smells so good, he says.

John madden

8/5/2017 02:53:46 pm

Evocative in the Hemingway tradition of short crisp dented

Evocative short powerful in the Hemingway tradition.

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